To be honest...with the type of antics that go on in college...I couldn’t see a guy less than sixteen ever attending...and that would be questionable.
I do believe that this entire business of saying a kid should go through 12 level of school to graduate high school is bogus...and that most could finish by the tenth grade. But our entire community college and university system just isn’t made for this kind of change.
Maybe they fear an inability to indocrinate a bright, independent thinker.
If the kid commutes, you miss all the nonsense that goes in in college life. You’re on campus for classes and home after that.
Living there is a different matter completely and that’s where the problems come in.
“To be honest...with the type of antics that go on in college...I couldn’t see a guy less than sixteen ever attending...and that would be questionable.”
Keep in mind this is a community college. Kids drive to school, show up for classes, and then go home or go to work - the kids barely know each other. There isn’t one tenth of the problems in these colleges as there are at typical public high schools.
A more reasonable question might be whether the kid will have any same-age friends while in college - but being home schoolers, I suspect that they belong to a church and that they are involved with other home schoolers...who don’t have issues with smart kids.